Crossword clues for vietnam
vietnam
- Mekong River country
- Place in a Robin Williams movie title
- "Full Metal Jacket" setting
- Where greedy folks crave dong
- UN member since 1977
- Tien len's country of origin
- Setting for part of "Forrest Gump"
- Nation whose flag is a yellow star on a red background
- Nation on the South China Sea
- Miss Saigon's homeland
- Kerry served there
- Gulf of Tonkin land
- Gulf of Tonkin country
- Formerly Tonkin, Annam and Cochis, China
- Debater's subject
- Country in Indochina
- Asian setting of a 2017 PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
- Asian country, divided north and south from 1954 to 1975
- Asian country from which Lily was adopted on "Modern Family"
- Where Caodaism is practiced
- Hanoi is its capital
- "Platoon" setting
- A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea
- Achieved independence from France in 1945
- _____ Memorial
- Country's name ITV got wrong
- Country’s partly Soviet name
- Country against having it's name changed hasn't succeeded
- Former soldier welcomes current soldier back in Socialist Republic
- Ho Chi Minh's country
- Asian country
- Asian nation
- 'Platoon' locale
- 'Platoon' setting
- Southeast Asian nation
- "Miss Saigon" setting
- "The Deer Hunter" setting
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
country in Southeast Asia, from Vietnamese Viet, the people's name + nam "south." Division into North and South lasted from 1954 to 1976. Vietnam War attested by 1963.
Wikipedia
Vietnam (, ; ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV; ), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants , it is the world's 14th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and Malaysia across the South China Sea to the southeast. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1975.
Vietnam was part of Imperial China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to AD 939. An independent Vietnamese state was formed in 939, following a Vietnamese victory in the Battle of Bạch Đằng River. Successive Vietnamese royal dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century. Following a Japanese occupation in the 1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North and South Vietnam. Conflict between the two sides intensified in what is known as the Vietnam War. The war ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975.
Vietnam was then unified under a communist government but remained impoverished and politically isolated. In 1986, the government initiated a series of economic and political reforms which began Vietnam's path towards integration into the world economy. By 2000, it had established diplomatic relations with all nations. Since 2000, Vietnam's economic growth rate has been among the highest in the world, and, in 2011, it had the highest Global Growth Generators Index among 11 major economies. Its successful economic reforms resulted in its joining the World Trade Organization in 2007. It is also an historical member of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. Vietnam remains one of the world's five remaining one-party socialist states officially espousing communism.
Vietnam is a rock, post-punk and new wave band from Atlanta, Georgia on Scared Records. Vietnam first appeared at the dawn of a new decade—the 80's, and ushered in a fresh era of music to the Atlanta new wave scene. Embraced by the early 80's cavalcade of Athens bands such as R.E.M., Pylon, Method Actors, Love Tractor, etc., Vietnam wowed the patrons of the legendary 688 club, 40 Watt club, and the Agora Ballroom. Their first performance was opening for Public Image Ltd. in April 1980, and the next year they played the Noise Fest in New York, appearing on the ZG compilation release of the same name along with Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, Y Pants and others. They released their first full length album on Scared Records in 2004, Past Away.
Vietnam is the third studio album by Shockabilly, released in 1984 by Fundamental Records. It released on CD as Vietnam/Heaven in 1990.
Vietnam is a (1987) Australian TV mini-series, directed by Chris Noonan and John Duigan. It stars Barry Otto, Nicole Kidman and Nicholas Eadie. The series won the Logie Award for Most Popular Single Telemovie or Miniseries.
Usage examples of "vietnam".
He also noted that a study in the spring of 1964, when Vietnam was a minor issue in the newspapers, showed that 53 percent of college-educated people were willing to send troops to Vietnam, but only 33 percent of grade school-educated people were so willing.
He saw the national investment in Vietnam draining our disposable strength from Europe and the Middle East and the likelihood that the more we Americanized the war, the less South Vietnam would do for itself.
Besides, I was particularly impressed with the way you folks handled that Aussie who was shot down, where was it, just inside Vietnam and not Cambodia?
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and so on.
Elliot Rose, in Cases of Conscience, published in 1975, the year in which the Vietnam War ended, drew a parallel between Catholics who refused to conform in the reign of Elizabeth and James I, and protesters against the Vietnam War.
With apparently no one to fight, the Cav was just twenty thousand men sitting in the middle of Vietnam in their mildewing tents, wondering why they were here.
Among the first Army cryptologists to arrive in Vietnam was twenty-five-year-old James T.
French-style buildings were nearly covered with neon advertisements, and names of places like Good Morning Vietnam, Ice Blue, and the Cyclo Bar.
The dogs proved so valuable on Guam that every Marine division was assigned a war dog platoon and they paved the way for the many dogs that have followed them in the armed services, most famously in Vietnam.
For almost thirty years they have lived with the guilt and sense of betrayal that came with the orders to leave their dogs in Vietnam.
More than a million dollars was raised by the Vietnam War Dog Handlers Association, and on February 21, 2000, in the midst of a rainstorm, more than 200 veteran dog handlers dedicated a monument to the war dogs of all wars at March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California, as a crowd of 2,000 looked on.
Instead of being honored as they deserved, the dogs of Korea, Vietnam, and of the peacetime military in the years following that war were put to death.
About the only people who use the Enfield Marine complex in a VA-related way now seem to be wild-eyed old Vietnam veterans in fatigue jackets de-sleeved to make vests, or else drastically old Korea vets who are now senile or terminally alcoholic or both.
White House announced that the president would make a major speech on Vietnam on November 3, Fulbright postponed his scheduled hearings to await its contents and the public response to it.
Membership in outlaw motorcycle gangs swells in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a second wave of disgruntled warriors-soldiers from the Vietnam War bring to the gangs much needed explosives and weapons skills as well as military contacts who arm the clubs.